Valerie Tan, Transformation Advisor, Geneva

Strategic ambition, structural change, and leadership performance rarely move at the same pace. The gap between them is where organizations lose momentum — and where my work begins.

I work at the point where organizational design, operational reality, and leadership effectiveness have to come together — and stay together.

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Organization design for where you're taking the business

Most organizations design for where they are, not where they're going. By the time the strategy shifts, the structure is already behind.

I help leadership teams design the organization their ambitions actually require — the structure, roles, operating model, and transition path that moves them from where they are today to where the business needs to be.

One example: Splitting one operating model into three independent businesses across 60 countries and 70 legal entities.

02

Most change efforts have a credible design. What they struggle with is the distance between design and working reality.

I help leadership teams close that gap — clarifying who does what, how decisions flow, where handoffs break down, and how performance gets measured. The alignment work that turns a new structure into a functioning organization. Especially critical post M&A.

One example: Restructuring a business unit to improve contribution margin by $30M while improving employee engagement by 10 points.

Making the new organization actually work

03

Building the leadership team the moment requires

The structure can be right and the strategy sound — and still decisions stall, accountability drifts, collaboration frays under pressure.

I work with the leader and their team to understand what makes them effective together — profiles, values, working styles, where they're likely to derail, and what they commit to doing differently. The goal is a team that can lead through the change, not just survive it.

One example: Rebuilding a President's leadership team through a merger to lead the restructure while maintaining performance.

Across all of this, I work closely with the senior leader — not as a consultant who delivers and departs, but as someone genuinely invested in whether it works.

If this sounds like the work your organization needs — let’s talk.